but but but I thought Gizmodo only hated Apple and loved Android! My head is spinning, I must forget I read this immediately!

We covered all the irrelevant buttons on my father-in-law's remote with ductape. That meant he had power, ch up and down, and volume. Much easier than having him call us up to come over and fix it (press the TV button), because he'd accidentally hit the DVD button yet again.

@chiieddy: You need to figure out a subtle way of letting the boss know what's going on. I once got rid of the most feared person in our office just by bccing all correspondence with her to the general manager. One other co-worker did the same thing, and she lasted about six weeks before finding another job. Of…

@Dezerus Richardson: Don't know yet. I'll be pretty annoyed if it's a significant amount, though, since I already paid for a crap OS.

@chiieddy: Best get on with the back-stabbing, then. If she's actually pure evil it shouldn't be too hard to get her out the door.

The biggest issue is what people thought about the person you're replacing, because you're going to be compared to him. If he got fired, you're golden. If he left for a better job and people miss him, better move along. The worst is if he was a long-time employee who died. Then there's no way you are going to be…

XP downgrade available? That's great news! I'm running Win7Starter on this netbook (HP), and it's a pig. My other netbook (ASUS) has XP, and it's way quicker, despite having almost the same specs. Bootup on this machine is interminable, and apps don't start running at speed for a good five minutes due to god knows…

@Matt Watkins: Decaf gives me coffee nerves without the boost. Worst of both worlds.

@fiji.siv: I have it from good authority that jablogs wears a giant iPhone costume.

If only Apple would give up on the Bauhaus aesthetic. It's so '50s futurist and user-hostile. If they'd go with steampunk their products would be a lot easier to use, and hipper, too.

@SBM_from_LA: Tried a couple of these for house mice, but they didn't work. They did seem to keep the kittens out of the kitchen and the garage until they got a bit older, though.

I've heard that human hair will keep foraging animals out of your garden, though I've never had to test it. You can get hair from your local beauty salon, just ask next time you get your hair cut.

@Inphoarius: "Disk" and "disc" are exactly the same word, just like "skeptic" and "sceptic." It's just a difference in transliteration from Greek.

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@SenorValasco: how do you know if a movie fits that criteria?

I go into Radio Shack every once in a while to browse, and am always amazed at how overpriced everything is. Their customer base must be limited to the absolutely clueless.

Nice. My cats beg me to turn a drip on in the bathtub, so fixing this up so it runs a drip from the outflow of the filter might make them happy.

@lcd604: I think it distracts the part of my brain that would otherwise be busy distracting me from what I have to do.

@podspawn: That's standard practice in modern restaurant design. The tables are just a little too small and the chairs just a little too hard and angled just a little bit wrong. It's not enough for you to actually take note of it, but it's enough to keep you from lingering when you're done.When Starbucks first…

@lcd604: I'm another one who needs noise around me to concentrate. Maybe it came from growing up in a large family. In college, I could never study in the library (zzzzzzz), but the cafeteria was ideal. For serious writing, though, I had to go back to the dorm and crank up the music.